Word: lies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...atricals have yet to lose their hold on the youthful mind. This lethargic condition is, nevertheless, a possible cause by which to explain the come which surrounds the efforts of the organization. Another potential factor in the lack of college success which the Dramatic Club has met might lie in the direction and training of the plays direction which has been, of late, merely capable. At any rate there is something vitally wrong, and an attempt to analyze that wrong is not out of place. Destructive criticism, while not offering any improvements, can at least awaken the Dramatic Club...
Ramsay Macdonald, onetime Labor Premier, now visiting the U. S.: "It is with emotion that I behold the empty grave where lie our ruined industries...
...hands of "the richest man in Massachusetts" lie the lives of two Radicals. On this man who has expressed his "thorough belief" in capital punishment as "the only thing to check wanton crimes of violence" rests such hope of pardon as two men may have who are condemned to be electrocuted for murder. Believing that trial judges should be "no mere moderators or referees," but should "guide and control" inquiries, he is now asked, in effect, to reverse a judicial decision when such a reversal will be universally interpreted as reflecting upon a member of the Massachusetts judiciary. For only...
...Quietly] Everything is being done to prove that there was a plot to revolt against the State. . . . That is a lie! ... I am loyal to the State and to the House of Savoy. . . . I alone sought to bring low this impostor, this Fascist! I hate Fascismo! I will always hate it! ... I wanted to restore the government of the State to my King by killing this impostor. . . . What more do you want? What more do you want? . . . I alone am guilty...
...lie! You lie, knowing that you lie!" shouted Signor Quaglia. At length, after repetitions of such scenes, the Court adjourned to consider testimony already given...